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@jaguar: Have you had the NIPT draw yet? Hoping time flies!

@jaguar: I hope it comes back super fast! Mine I think also says up to 10 business days, but both time it has come back in eight calendar days... There are so many things that can cause bleeding, and I think it's much more common with IVF - odds are in your favor that everything will look good! But the nervousness is completely understandable... Any distracting plans for the weekend?

@Jessiemuller88: Congrats on a great appt! So exciting that you'll know the sex of the babies soon!

Do any of you live in Canada? I am so interested in getting NIPT testing but I’m not sure if it’s offered. I don’t believe I was given the option with DD 2 years ago.

If I recall correctly at around 12 weeks they attempted a fetal Doppler. First ultrasound was at 12 weeks for NT testing and we did an anatomy scan at 20 weeks.

I hate to think I have to wait until 20 weeks to find out gender!!

@helloperidot: I’m currently 32. We are in Canada so insurance plans are probably a little different. My plan says “diagnostic X-ray and lab tests to diagnose a disease or injury, including allergy testing, prenatal screening, and virtual colonoscopy, when coverage is not available under provincial healthcare plans”.

I’m hoping this means my private insurance will cover it!

@jaguar: I know it must be so nerve wracking with all the bleeding you've had, but the fact that things have consistently looked great on the ultrasounds is a really good sign. Keeping fingers crossed that the test comes back super fast!

@jaguar: it’s about $500 here, I asked a local mom. I don’t think I can justify doing it as I’m low risk, but I will do it if my insurance helps!

@Jessiemuller88: thanks! Did you get your results back? I hear they can confirm two girls but it’s a guess if it’s two boys or a boy and a girl.

@Jessiemuller88: I totally googled after you mentioned NIPT testing, and yeah panorama was the only one I could find that can do twins... Which is really cool since it's a blood draw on the mother and not individual baby.

@Jessiemuller88: I guess you have fetal DNA just floating around in your blood. So they identify the baby dna and check it for common genetic disorders like Down’s syndrome etc. And since they have the DNA, they check if it has an X Or Y chromosome. Moms are all XX so if they test the blood and only find X chromosomes, it isn’t a boy. If they test and find a Y chromosome, you know you genetically have a boy (or in the case of twins, at least one boy). I think it’s super cool and I’m not surprised this sort of testing costs $500

@jaguar: Hurry up results!!!!

Update from my part of the world--

Oldest had her tonsilectomy/adenoidectomy today. It went well and we are home. She has eaten three popsicles, two bowls of ice cream, and three bowls of butter spaghetti, a long with some sips of water. Fingers crossed the tylenol/motrin can keep up with her pain.

Our new mattress set is being delivered tomorrow! I am so excited. It's supposed to be here between 8 and 10am.

I'm officially 10w on Thursday, which is the first day I can go get the CFFDNA draw (NIPT). DD1's surgery has thrown everything for a loop, so while I hope to get to the lab on Thursday, we will see if she feels up to it.

I feel like I've been pregnant forever and we still haven't told anyone. DH wants to wait until we know gender so we can share that info at the same time. Ugh, hurry up, time!

@helloperidot: Hope your DD feels better soon!

@helloperidot: @jaguar: I'm with you on feeling like I've been pregnant forever, first tri drags and drags.... I'll be 13 weeks Saturday which was a turning point for feeling a bit more human with DS, so I'm hoping that will be the case, but have heard MS can last longer with a The nausea and exhaustion are still killing me, and I've had some wicked strong cravings this time around for random stuff that I never have in the house....

We still need to announce. Family is all far away and we won't see them in person, so it hasn't seemed particularly urgent since getting the NIPT results back. It's a weird thing to just bring up casually during a phone call. I took some adorable pics last night of LO with a big brother book, and think I'll use those to make an announcement to send to our parents later this week.

I'll either tell work beginning of next week or need to start making effort to hide the bump. I'm starting to pop but have lost weight from the MS, so am slightly worried if DS gives my pants a hard tug they might come down , as they are way too big in the bum but won't go up over the belly. I pulled out a scarf this morning and it really helps with the awkward looking fat but not pregnant stage....

@periwinklebee: I def just look like I ate lots of burgers. And feel really jiggly since my exercise had to stop because of the resting from the bleeds. Wobble wobble....

COME ON BLOODS, I am dying over here!!!! If not today, I'm praying before the weekend... this wait is excruciating!

@jaguar: hurry up lab, cmon!!!!!

With ds I was great about exercising, this time I’ve been awful. Between feeling like exhausted crap, and moving and planning renovations to our new place and to sell our old place, it’s just felt impossible.

@periwinklebee: First trimester is sooooo slow. I’m only 5 weeks! I still have a long way to go, and morning sickness hasn’t hit me yet. You are so close, I can’t wait to be 11 weeks. My husband is so excited, he wants to tell family, but I’m just not ready yet. I just hate being talked about (like my body and how it’s changing or isn’t changing) or people telling me what I can and cannot eat. It’s just irritating. I figure it’s all a waiting game anyways, I’d rather wait in peace.

@honey786: well, I’m not getting the NIPT. I called my insurance company and they said it wasn’t an insured service. I just can’t justify the money and we are low risk anyways. I’m in Canada so I’ll do the First Trimester screening and the 20 week anatomy scan.

Anyone else in Canada? I had my first doctors appointment and it was so frustrating. I understand my doctor is busy, but she actually barely had time to look at me. She shoved a bunch of requisitions at me and basically walked out. Sooooo should I do my bloodwork now? At 6 or 7 or 8 weeks? One is the bloodwork for the FTS so I think that’s at 9-12 weeks.... but I’m not sure when I should do the other one. I have a physical with my GP at 9 weeks, so maybe I’ll do the bloodwork a week before my physical so she has the results. I am so over her though! I always get rushed out. My post-partum exam she just said “do things feel ok down there? Alright well let’s skip the exam”. This was after an episiotomy. I swear she skipped it because she was running behind and trying to skip procedures. End of rant but I’m just seeing her one more time for my referral to the maternity clinic and I’ll see if I can find a new GP after this baby.

I have a few questions! So I just completed my last day of adult gymnastics. I started about 3 months ago and it’s so fun, I’ve been learning how to do cartwheels, roundoffs, front handsprings, front tucks, and back tucks. It’s summer vacation so there is a week off and the sessions start up again. I’m torn. We have to pay an annual insurance fee (I think it’s maybe $80) then I pay per class. Should I just quit and maybe try to pick up a yoga class, or should I keep going until I’m 12-14 weeks along? I’d only go to a few more classes before I think it’ll get awkward and I’d have to pay the entire annual fee. It’s also super fun and doctors encourage you to keep doing what you were doing before you got pregnant. I do think I’ll quit sooner rather than later so my balance gets thrown off with the baby. So should I keep going or be lazy?

@Eebolleh: Our official 12 week scan is next week so will know more then. But low risk for T21, 18, 13 & sex disorders. So relieved!

@periwinklebee: Three sisters. I can't even believe it. Hubby just laughed and laughed.. surrounded by fiesty women.

@Eebolleh: I would definitely try and get a new doctor. That is ridiculous how she treats you!

As far as the gymnastics go, I’m pretty lazy the first 10-12 weeks of pregnancy. I usually stop my strenuous activity, just to be safe. That being said, I have always heard it’s safe to keep a routine, as long as you have already been doing it for a while.

@jaguar: Been stalking the thread and just wanted to say Congrats!!

@Jessiemuller88: I'm 10w today and on my third pregnancy, definitely have a bloaty bump that doesn't go away. You're having twins, though, so expect to show early and look fully pregnant by 28w.